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June Ryder: I remember reading about elephants once.Ray Blent: Yeah?June Ryder: Did you know that elephants only mate once every seven years?Ray Blent: Sure. But there are some that. . .that manage once every six years.June Ryder: Nymphomaniacs.

I am a big fan of Joshua Logan’s Picnic, Bus Stop, Sayonara and Paint Your Wagon (and Mister Roberts, which he took over when John Ford became ill; though I must say I did not really like Fanny), so when I heard the Warner Archive was releasing a remastered copy of 1960’s Tall Story (a film I’d been trying to see or ages) I was overjoyed. While the title sequence is still a little grainy, the rest of the remaster is wonderful and crisp. Nothing makes me happier than crisp black and white cinematography and this remaster does justice to Ellsworth Fredericks‘ excellent work.

Inspector A: None of this is going to show up very well in the record, Mr. K. My men say you even tried to stop them from putting this down [points to notebook].Josef K.: Well, I tried to stop one of them from making a fool of himself. [pointing] Yes, yes: ovular.Inspector A: What’s that?Josef K.: Ov-u-lar.Inspector A: There’s no such word.

Marion Crane: I am sorry. I only felt. . .it seems she’s hurting you. [beat] I meant well.Norman Bates: People always mean well! They cluck their thick tongues and shake their heads and suggest, oh so very delicately! [beat] Of course, I’ve suggested it myself. But I hate to even think about it. She needs me. It . . .it’s not as if she were a. . .a maniac . . .a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. [beat] Haven’t you?Marion Crane: Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough. Thank you.Norman Bates: ‘Thank you, Norman.’Marion Crane: . . .Norman.